Quotes About Inquiry

He who knows nothing doubts nothing.

Erst wenn man die Oberfläche der Dinge kennen gelernt hat, kann man sich aufmachen, um herauszufinden, was darunter sein mag. Doch die Oberfläche der Dinge ist unerschöpflich.

Bir kentte hayran kald???n ?ey onun yedi ya da yetmi? yedi harikas? de?il, senin ona sordu?un bir soruya verdi?i yan?tt?r.

De una ciudad no disfrutas las siete o setenta y siete maravillas, sino la respuesta que da a una pregunta tuya

The living of Laudomia frequent the house of the unborn to interrogate them: footsteps echo beneath the hollow domes; the questions are asked in silence; and it is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come.

Solo dopo aver conosciuto la superficie delle cose, ci si può spingere a cercare quel che c'è sotto. Ma la superficie delle cose è inesauribile.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." Khan: "Or the question it asks you, forcing you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx.

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

If a condition could be conceived in which all the preaching of the Church should be controlled by the liberalism which in many quarters has already become preponderant, then, we believe, Christianity would at last have perished from the earth and the gospel would have sounded forth for the last time. If so, it follows that the inquiry with which we are now concerned is immeasurably the most important of all those with which the Church has to deal.

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The

What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.

principles of freethought is that no question is unaskable.

Antes que comece a fazer perguntas e a abrir portas que ficariam melhor se permanecessem fechadas, talvez deva pensar que talvez não goste muito do que acabará descobrindo.

Dallas Winston: Are you a real red head? Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair you have on your, uh, your, your, these eyebrows.

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU

A person who asks questions can get a reputation such as a person who wishes to find things out.

Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being?

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

We are not so much who we are by what we know, but by what we wonder. So go and seek and you shall find. And once you find that, go and seek some more.